The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰ Then ^[a]God said, “Behold, ^(A)I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people ^(B)I will perform miracles which have not been ^[b]produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ^[c]among whom you live will see the working of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

¹¹ “^[d]Be sure to comply with what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^(C)I am going to drive out the Amorite from you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ^12 (D)Be careful that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. ^13 (E)But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones, and cut down their ^[e](F)Asherim ¹⁴ —for ^(G)you shall not worship any other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— ¹⁵ otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they would prostitute themselves with their gods and ^(H)sacrifice to their gods, and someone ^(I)might invite you ^[f]to eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and ^(J)you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons also to prostitute themselves with their gods. ^17 (K)You shall not make for yourself any gods cast in metal.

¹⁸ “You shall keep ^(L)the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For ^(M)seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, ^[g]as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the ^(N)month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

¹⁹ “^(O)The ^[h]firstborn from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the ^[i]firstborn from ^[j]cattle and sheep. ^20 (P)You shall redeem with a lamb the firstborn from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem ^(Q)all the firstborn of your sons. ^[k](R)None are to appear before Me empty-handed.

²¹ “You shall work ^(S)six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest. ²² And you shall celebrate ^(T)the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. ^23 (U)Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord ^[l]God, the God of Israel. ²⁴ For I will ^[m](V)drive out nations from you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.

²⁵ “^(W)You shall not ^[n]offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, ^(X)nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to ^[o]be left over until morning.

²⁶ “You shall bring ^(Y)the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.

“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

²⁷ Then the Lord said to Moses, “^(Z)Write ^[p]down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made ^(AA)a covenant with you and with Israel.” ²⁸ So he was there with the Lord for ^(AB)forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And ^[q](AC)He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, ^(AD)the Ten ^[r]Commandments.